Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d69a2da93f3b940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:46:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 52a6f1e430f8aca50757f50c3ef5158b SHA-1: ee1cc8ae2230e5a9c12e0ae146c4275095f412bc SHA-256: 6d69a2da93f3b940a4f52acc9ed76cd64e2548af1c33bcea8c61f949b2365faf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites utilizing the FormCraft plugin for file uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or redirection to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest a coordinated effort to distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=linear+equations+class+6+questions PDF link annotation
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8a8c07cde---soxigisikixufuretowapeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a1a1e3c68---75377802951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07057f1c25---33053774774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/guresezomapuwofutaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/40197470239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1dbb20edd4---kolibegigesuvebatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5351qmo7h11bru40kr2vheem7/12517193725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1621469185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihkunpdo3imsbjjp9ojdulqi8v/39825439231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc2326ee1b---70111228749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b6abc1f40---7457716347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62b45c2d22---sulovutigozut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chikatere.com/Upload/files/52176727877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bthc6dra814l0gadgmqd2o9kop/91433644990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susasoft.com/upload/userfiles/files/tonozebitedapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/84229838937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f398.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF398 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 3e60cdc4040d89b6bde5dbf154f4d45a61b1d9f9155c169496e4656f8eaae60e
font_02_sfnt_off00010bee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BEE 18300 bytes
SHA-256: a80f1bba5b560c685caecea0567aff918fbbd81d510786da6f0497215778c5f2